Blind Item: What 'Media CEO' Would Spend $280,000 On A Poem Everyone Knows?

Via AP:

NEW YORK — A businessman paid $280,000 for an original 1860 handwritten copy of the classic poem that begins “‘Twas the night before Christmas” and read it to friends at a party, an auction gallery said Tuesday. The buyer, identified only as the chief executive officer of a media company, received the copy of the poem this month, just in time to read it to relatives and business associates at a holiday party in his Manhattan apartment.

Hrmm,

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